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Regarding one-time pads, wyle@ethz.UUCP writes:

>Any weaknesses in such a scheme have to lie elsewhere.  For
>example, if the key bits are not really random (this CAN
>happen; it happened in preparing the Rand Corp. table of a
>million random digits!), ...

Yup.  The "million random digits" book has been called Rand's most popular
work of fiction.

I heard rumors that somebody was able to do something with Cuban one-time
pads because the "random numbers" were generated by girls with typewriters
generating the random :-) digits at their keyboards.

I think I'd better put a disclaimer on this one, although I usually don't:
This is solely my personal opinion, and not necessarily that of my employer,
the Rand Corporation.
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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	jim@rand-unix.arpa